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@oldleatherbat.bsky.social
Save democracy! Destroy T. O. C. around the world!
Makin' monsters with MyBestFiendzStudio
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A remarkable sentence in this piece about Elon 'Icarus' Musk:
"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected."
www.ft.com/content/ea5b...
"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected."
www.ft.com/content/ea5b...
Elon Musk’s self-destruction
The cost for Donald Trump of keeping the world’s richest man by his side is growing
www.ft.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A remarkable sentence in this piece about Elon 'Icarus' Musk:
"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected."
www.ft.com/content/ea5b...
"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected."
www.ft.com/content/ea5b...
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A bill from two Democratic representatives would investigate the “pink tariff,” which encompasses the higher tax rates on imported items classified as women’s goods.
Women’s goods can cost more. Two Democrats want to study the 'pink tariff.'
On average, tariffs are 3 percent higher for women’s clothing.
19thnews.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A bill from two Democratic representatives would investigate the “pink tariff,” which encompasses the higher tax rates on imported items classified as women’s goods.
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Forget public grade schools. The Turd Reich Redux regime is decimating higher education.
March 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Forget public grade schools. The Turd Reich Redux regime is decimating higher education.
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More than 30 nations will participate in Paris planning talks on an international security force for Ukraine #Europe
www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...
www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...
More than 30 nations will participate in Paris planning talks on a security force for Ukraine
Military officials from more than 30 nations will take part in Paris talks on the creation of an international security force for Ukraine, a French military official said Monday.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
More than 30 nations will participate in Paris planning talks on an international security force for Ukraine #Europe
www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...
www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...
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Anything left at USAID will be about promoting fascism and calling it Christian nationalism. Pete Marocco needs to be household name.
Everything DOGE is doing is illegal. Rubio is a traitor and is well aware of his Vichy complicity.
The question is what will stop them. The answer is not mournful signage.
The question is what will stop them. The answer is not mournful signage.
Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.
March 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Anything left at USAID will be about promoting fascism and calling it Christian nationalism. Pete Marocco needs to be household name.
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“And the fact is that Trump wants to cut deals with all the autocrats—with Russia, China, Iran, and for that matter North Korea. Those are the leaders with whom he wants to work to make the world safe for autocracy.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/four-dimen...
www.thebulwark.com/p/four-dimen...
This Isn’t Four-Dimensional Chess. Trump’s Helping Russia.
President Trump’s recent moves with respect to Ukraine may seem bewildering. But they’re not. He’s partial to the country’s invader.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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the Dow has now given back all gains made since November 5
March 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
the Dow has now given back all gains made since November 5
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I have a piece up at @thebulwark.bsky.social. The Silicon Valley oligarchs like to think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel, but they perfectly encapsulate the *villains* of Atlas Shrugged. 1/
Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains.
Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters.
www.thebulwark.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I have a piece up at @thebulwark.bsky.social. The Silicon Valley oligarchs like to think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel, but they perfectly encapsulate the *villains* of Atlas Shrugged. 1/
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BOLDUAN: Target and Best Buy said last week that prices are going up in direct relation to the tariffs. Is that a good thing for your constituents?
MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
March 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
BOLDUAN: Target and Best Buy said last week that prices are going up in direct relation to the tariffs. Is that a good thing for your constituents?
MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
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Huge loss for the Post and all of its readers. We’re all worse off for this.
Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis
March 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Huge loss for the Post and all of its readers. We’re all worse off for this.
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Breaking:
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian province of Ontario applies 25% electricity surcharge to U.S. in response to Trump's tariff war.
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian province of Ontario applies 25% electricity surcharge to U.S. in response to Trump's tariff war.
March 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Breaking:
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian province of Ontario applies 25% electricity surcharge to U.S. in response to Trump's tariff war.
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian province of Ontario applies 25% electricity surcharge to U.S. in response to Trump's tariff war.
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Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer
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GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."
March 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."
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The Tesla Valentine’s Day great wheel heist. Investigators say the building’s cameras were not recording, and the Teslas’ cameras were inactive as the cars were off. #3E #TeslaTakeDown
March 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Tesla Valentine’s Day great wheel heist. Investigators say the building’s cameras were not recording, and the Teslas’ cameras were inactive as the cars were off. #3E #TeslaTakeDown
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All Democratic Senators/Representatives should have a bluesky account as well as twitter...
March 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
All Democratic Senators/Representatives should have a bluesky account as well as twitter...
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Hm, if only there had been a way for an elected leader to predict what Trump would do in office before throwing support behind him.
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "We were the leader of the free world, but it appears to many leaders and people all over, to include Republicans in Nebraska, that this administration is walking away from that legacy."
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hm, if only there had been a way for an elected leader to predict what Trump would do in office before throwing support behind him.
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cutting the fat
X down: Twitter not working amid major outage
X down: Twitter not working amid major outage
X has gone down in what appears to be a major and global outage.
www.independent.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
cutting the fat
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Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests. @ninalakhani.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com:
$5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds
The highly concentrated egg market may be contributing to soaring consumer prices – and the spread of the virus, data shared exclusively with the Guardian shows
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests. @ninalakhani.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com:
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“We’ve seen the many ways in which Trump has sought to undermine Congress, and now he’s seeking to undermine the judicial bench,” said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard law school professor.
“This is a president who is arrogating to himself the powers of a dictator.”
“This is a president who is arrogating to himself the powers of a dictator.”
‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“We’ve seen the many ways in which Trump has sought to undermine Congress, and now he’s seeking to undermine the judicial bench,” said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard law school professor.
“This is a president who is arrogating to himself the powers of a dictator.”
“This is a president who is arrogating to himself the powers of a dictator.”
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Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis
Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis
Exclusive: the 17-month-old department has lost a senior leader and ranked second worst for staff wellbeing in the annual public service census
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The agency overseeing Australia’s almost $400bn acquisition of nuclear submarines is facing a staff morale crisis and the threat of an external review of its operations, with a key deputy director leaving after just a year.
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December 5, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis
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“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
December 2, 2024 at 6:19 PM
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
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Pete Hegseth worships at the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, led by “Doug Wilson, an untrained and self-proclaimed pastor who advocates for Christian nationalism…”
Wilson also wrote that “sexual violence is women's fault for not being submissive enough.”
Wilson also wrote that “sexual violence is women's fault for not being submissive enough.”
In 2018, Hegseth's mother called him out as an "abuser" and asked him to "get some help."
Instead, he joined a church with a long history of shielding abusers, blaming victims, and saying men "dream of being rapists" because of feminism.
www.salon.com/2024/12/03/p...
Instead, he joined a church with a long history of shielding abusers, blaming victims, and saying men "dream of being rapists" because of feminism.
www.salon.com/2024/12/03/p...
Pete Hegseth's mother begged him to "get some help" — instead, he joined a grossly misogynist church
The denomination's leader argues men "dream of being rapists" because women aren't submissive enough
www.salon.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Pete Hegseth worships at the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, led by “Doug Wilson, an untrained and self-proclaimed pastor who advocates for Christian nationalism…”
Wilson also wrote that “sexual violence is women's fault for not being submissive enough.”
Wilson also wrote that “sexual violence is women's fault for not being submissive enough.”